john h wrote:
Hooray for your email. I have precisely the same problems. I don't want to
build a watch, I just want to know what time it is. I have a GPS time source
and want it to synchronize my bag of 15 computers consisting of several
flavors of RedHat Linux, win 98, win NT 4, win2000 winxp.
I got win xp working all I had to do was give it the ip address of my
timesource. but Linux!!! i still don't understand. I can get ntp started but
it refuses to sync and I never see my systems time match that of my stratum
1 timeserver
Thanks to your respondants I have renewed hope that my head will recover.
"Cam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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When I installed Red Hat, it asked me what NTP servers to use and built
a configuration file for me.
The file is called ntp.conf and lives in /etc.
The system startup configures the firewall to allow NTP and a clean
shutdown, I believe, closes the firewall against NTP again. Linux is
not for the faint hearted. If you think the NTP documentation is bad,
you haven't really looked at Linux documentation (or any Unix
documentation for that matter). It's by geeks for geeks and no holds
barred. In principle, you're supposed to be able to read the source
code to figure out how it works and to be able to modify it if you don't
like the way it works!!!!
A bare bones ntp.conf looks like this:
# Define a drift file. ntpd uses this to save the current value of the
frequency correction to the clock
# oscillator. The file is read at startup and the value is used as an
initial estimate which is subsequently
# refined by ntpd.
driftfile /var/ntp/ntp.drift
# Define some servers
server <ip address of server 1> iburst
server <ip address of server 2> iburst
server <ip address of server 3> iburst
server <ip address of server 4> iburst
Best practice is to use four or more servers. One works but if
something happens to it or to your network connection to it, you're
toast! Two servers are practically guaranteed to cause problems.
Don't do it! Three work but if anything happens to one. . . .
You can add all sorts of fancies to the above if you take the trouble to
read and understand the HTML documentation in the html subdirectory.
The above should work. If not, you have a Linux problem rather than an
NTP problem.
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